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believe, known only in the East. The kernels of the seeds are intensely 

 bitter, and possess the tonic power in a very high degree. They are ac- 

 cordingly employed by the Hindu physicians, in all cases in which that 

 power is more especially required; and particularly in intermittent fevers, 

 for which they are considered as an almost infallible remedy. The mode 

 of using them is as follows. One of the ^seeds^ freed from its hard shell, 

 is beat into a paste, with a few drops of water, and three corns of black 

 pepper. This is, formed into three pills, which are taken for a dose, and 

 this dose is repeated, three or four times a day ; or oftener if necessary. 

 The deco6lion of the Gentiana Cherayita (Roxb.) is generally prescribed, 

 fio be taken at the same time with the pills. See Gentiana Cherayita, 



This method of curing intermittents is so generally successful, that il 

 has been adopted by many European practitioners ; particularly in those 

 cases, which so frequently occur, in which the ^^tients have an aversion 

 to the Peruvian bark, or cannot retain it on the stomach. In all such cases^ 

 and also on occasions where the Peruvia?i bark cannot be procured, I be- 

 lieve that the Catca?'anja will be found one of the best substitutes to v/hich 

 we can have recourse ; particularly if assisted by the decoction of the 

 Cherayita, which indeed is so powerful an auxiliary, that it may be doubt- 

 ful, in the case of success, to which of the two remedies the cure should 

 be chiefly ascribed,, . ■-.a.w., .^.-.. i ;,:■■;- f-vri-f ./if 



CANNABIS Sat IV A. (W.) £%afig ani. Gdnja H. Ganjicd S. 



MUEEAY, IV. 608. 



Bela Marck is of opinion that the Indian Gdnja is a different spe- 

 cies of Cannabis from the Cannabis Sativa, and names it " Cannabis In^ 

 dica foliis alternisr (Encyc. Bot. L €95^) But Wildenow, after re- 

 marking that the European species has also alternate leaves, assures us 



